""From the very first visits, we shared the desire to preserve the spirit of the place-to intervene without erasing," says Chloé Morin, principal architect along with Enzo Fruytier and, recently joined by François Gastesoleil of Gastesoleil."
""This type of system was widely used in the past, and we chose to install it in this house beca"
A stone farmhouse in Tellières-le-Plessis, France, sat abandoned for more than fifteen years and became partly reclaimed by surrounding forest. A Parisian couple commissioned Les Ateliers Permanents to restore the 1,300-square-foot house with a focus on preserving its original spirit and historic details. Interventions included landscape clearing, careful resetting of surroundings, new openings, replaced exterior joinery, stripping back wattle-and-daub partitions, and redoing lime renders. Insulation was added (12 inches in the roof, 6 inches on select north and west walls). Interior work converted a detached workshop into a dining area with a poured-concrete floor, retained vintage tiles and fixtures, and installed a wood-fired boiler stove to replace an oil boiler and heat cast-iron radiators.
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